Word: pharmacist
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Michelle Crider, 28, was speechless. The pharmacist had just said, "No." The married mother of a two-year-old daughter, Crider was concerned that she might become pregnant after having intercourse with her husband. She called her doctor, who prescribed a so-called morning-after formula: four birth-control pills to prevent implantation of a fertilized egg, a use consistent with recent regulations from the Food and Drug Administration. Then the doctor called Crider back: the pharmacy manager at Longs Drug Store in Temecula, California, had refused to fill the order, citing his moral beliefs...
BORN: Aug. 4, 1952, Chicago EDUCATION: U of Illinois, B.S., 1976; John Marshall Law School, J.D., 1984 FAMILY: Wife, Donna; three children. RELIGION: Jewish MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer; pharmacist POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: P.O. Box 7001, Deerfield...
...long pause. "I don't know," he said. Lychev, the schoolteacher, expressed disdain for Yeltsin but voted for him anyway. "It was a case of the lesser evil," he said. "The one thing I wanted to avoid was a turn back to the past." The village's fierce pharmacist, Tamara Bechina, who supports Zyuganov, had this explanation: "They voted for Yeltsin because they're benighted. They voted for Yeltsin because their bosses 'suggested' they do so." The village doctor, Lyubov Chuvikova, will also vote for Zyuganov in the second round. "Life has never been as devoid of hope...
...were either worthless or expired. In Sudan aid workers have received contact-lens solution and appetite stimulants--a bizarre contribution to a country experiencing famine. Health workers in Rwanda are still sorting through crates of "odorless" garlic pills, ginseng extract and Tums antacids delivered during the war. A WHO pharmacist working in the Balkans says, "Staff members have risked their lives under sniper fire trying to identify medications that turn out to be useless." Since drugs sometimes arrive poorly labeled, often in a foreign language, errors do occur. Three years ago, 11 Lithuanian women were temporarily blinded by an improperly...
That attitude outrages antihomeopathy activists like Barrett, who believe that druggists as health professionals have a moral obligation to their customers. "They don't even discuss among themselves whether selling an ineffective product is an ethical issue," he says. But pharmacist Jerry Zlotnik, executive vice president of Ohio's Medic Discount Drug chain, sees no need to defend the health benefits of the products he sells. Says Zlotnik: "I also carry candy, cigarettes, beer and wine...